On 2 December 2015 at 11:10, Jan Schermer <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1) if you have the original drive that works and just want to replace it then you can just "dd" it over to the new drive and then extend the partition if the new one is larger, this avoids double backfilling in this case > 2) if the old drive is dead you should "out" it and at the same time add a new drive Hi Jan - we're talking about the case when we simply want to remove an OSD (e.g. downsizing or rearranging the cluster). Obviously there are other situations but I'd like to discuss the documentation for removing an OSD, not fixing failures. Thanks, Andy _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com